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I’ve recently had a similar experience with being hospitalized due to heart complications & the loop implant showing absolutely nothing. I spent a whole month in the hospital on the CPCU floor on a dopamine drip. The critical care nurse told my mom that if they were to stop the domaine drip, that my heart would slowly stop pumping all together in less than an hour. At some points, I remember my HR being at 22 with rapid response & critical care teams running to the bedside. After a month at this hospital, I was transferred to Cedar-Sinai….the hospital that is rated #2 in the nation… And they argued with me saying there was nothing wrong with my heart because the loop monitor has no recorded episodes. In fact, it says “Everything's looking great!”. I was pissed because how are they going to tell me I spent a month in the hospital on a dopamine drip artificlaly pumping my heart, & now you’re going to argue with me that my heart is perfectly fine. Screw the professional care teams that were monitoring my heart & condition at the other hospital & just go off of a loop implant that is clearly so inaccurate. Instead of using common sense & logic when I was questioning the accuracy of the loop implant after all the previous poor test results at the other hospital, they stood firm on “The loop recorders are fairly accurate & you should be happy it’s giving good readings.” If that’s so, then i’m not really happy about wasting a month of my life & hassle of dealing with a picc line for that dopamine drip that I supposedly didn’t need the whole time. To conclude, THE LOOP MONITORS ARE DANGEROUS TO BE GIVING OUT TO PATIENTS WHO ARE ACTUALLY HAVING CARDIAC COMPLICATIONS BECAUSE THE LOOP RECORDERS ARE EXTREMELY INACCURATE.